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Overture : recasting "the social" as "the symbolic" / Bernard Bel ... [et al.]. Negotiating modernity with symbolic resources / Guy Poitevin ; Symbolic facets of medical power / Bernard Bel

Fonts of self-identity. Introduction : modes of self-presentation / Editors. Avenue of expression. The Minas : seeking a place in history / Nandini Sinha Kapur

Quests for assertion. Vaḍār narratives : dramatic reappropriation of a myth / Datta Shinde ; Māṇg narratives : semantic reappropriation of a myth / Sanjay Jogdanda ; Bhakti : a faith for rehabilitation / Guy Poitevin and Hema Rairkar

Grounds of work relations. Introduction : faculties of correlation / Editors. Integrative links of "the traditional". The communicating goddess of the artisans / Jan Brouwer ; The Mother Earth of the Mawal peasant : testimonies from Baban Khandbhor and Prabhakar Ghare

Disruptive challenges of "the modern". Vaḍār communities : traditional skills in changing times / Datta Shinde ; Parīṭ communities : occupation and survival / Suresh Kokate

Bonds of health practices. Introduction : symbolic forms and signs / Guy Poitevin. Between yesterday and today. The slum dwellers of Chennai : indigenous health practices / S.A. Samy ; The Vaidu : traditional practices and social status / Chandrakant Kokate

Inheritance of knowledge. Birth attendants : between the devil and the deep blue sea / Bernard Bel and Andréine Bel ; Popular culture and childbirth : perceptions and practices in rural Rajasthan / Tulsi Patel ; Midwives : a tradition on the move in Maharashtra / Hema Rairkar

In lieu of an epilogue / Editors.

Symbolic anthropology > India.

Communication and culture > India.

Cognition and culture > India.

Ethnopsychology > India.

Indic literature > History and criticism.

India > Social life and customs.